Full Description
Among emotions, surprise has been extensively studied in psychology. In linguistics, surprise, like other emotions, has mainly been studied through the syntactic patterns involving surprise lexemes. However, little has been done so far to correlate the reaction of surprise investigated in psychological approaches and the effects of surprise on language. This cross-disciplinary volume aims to bridge the gap between emotion, cognition and language by bringing together nine contributions on surprise from different backgrounds - psychology, human-agent interaction, linguistics. Using different methods at different levels of analysis, all contributors concur in defining surprise as a cognitive operation and as a component of emotion rather than as a pure emotion. Surprise results from expectations not being met and is therefore related to epistemicity. Linguistically, there does not exist an unequivocal marker of surprise. Surprise may be either described by surprise lexemes, which are often associated with figurative language, or it may be expressed by grammatical and syntactic constructions. Originally published as a special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 13:2 (2015)
Contents
1. Introduction (by Celle, Agnes); 2. Surprise as a conceptual category (by Kovecses, Zoltan); 3. The complex, language-specific semantics of "surprise" (by Goddard, Cliff); 4. Grammatical evidentiality and the unprepared mind (by Peterson, Tyler); 5. Operationalizing mirativity: A usage-based quantitative study of constructional construal in English (by Krawczak, Karolina); 6. The computer-mediated expression of surprise: A corpus analysis of chats by English and Italian native speakers and Italian learners of English (by Ascone, Laura); 7. Surprise routines in scientific writing: A study of French social science articles (by Tutin, Agnes); 8. Surprise in the GRID (by Soriano Salinas, Cristina Maria); 9. Surprise and human-agent interactions (by Clavel, Chloe); 10. Expressing and describing surprise (by Celle, Agnes); 11. Index
